Associate Professor John Pye
Lecturer, Research School of Engineering
ANU College of Engineering and Computer Science
Project convenor, ANU Grand Challenge: Zero-Carbon Energy for the Asia-Pacific
BE/BSc (Melb), PhD (UNSW)
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About
Bachelor of Engineering (Mech., 1st Class Hons.) / Bachelor of Science double degree from University of Melbourne, 1997.
Doctor of Philosophy from University of New South Wales, 2008. Supervised by Em Prof Graham Morrison. Topic: System Modelling of the Compact Linear Fresnel Reflector. Thesis available from the UNSW library website.
Visiting Scholar at Sandia National Laboratories (Albuquerque, New Mexico) National Solar Thermal Test Facility in 2012.
Researcher in the Solar Thermal Group since 2006.
Affiliations
Research interests
- High-temperature solar-thermal energy systems.
- Concentrating solar thermal power (CSP aka CST)
- Industrial decarbonisation
- Hydrogen direct reduction ironmaking (H₂DRI)
- Energy systems modelling
- Free/open-source software for engineering
- Optics of non-imaging concentrators
- Solar receiver design
- Hybrid thermal energy systems
- Thermodynamic fluid property calculation
- Biomass gasification in supercritical steam